December 31, 2019
The light artillery fire is aimed mainly at the top floor
Srinagar: In their final assault against holed up militants, Army troops have
fired mortar bombs and rockets on a multi-storey building at an official campus
outside Jammu and Kashmir’s highway town of Pampore, 16-km south of capital
Srinagar. Earlier the officials had said that the militants were using 'shrewd'
and 'dodging' tactics against combat forces and have used their ammunition
judiciously. In the subsequent shootout, an employee of the JK EDI Abdul Gani
Mir, 48, also lost his life.
The entire area has been cordoned off
as security forces are engaging heavily with the terrorists.The entire area has
been cordoned off as security forces are engaging heavily with the
terrorists.Police officials here confirmed that the trio has been cornered in
the top floor of the building.However, in their attempt to overrun the building,
two Army captains Pawan Kumar and Tushar Mahajan and corporal Om Prakash laid
down their lives. After the troops stormed the building, the militants scattered
and then started moving from room to room and floor to floor.
The light artillery
fire is aimed mainly at the top floor of the main block at J&K
Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JK EDI) campus where the militant trio
was earlier restricted to by Army troops including crack teams from its Para
Special Force. Earlier on Saturday the militants believed to be one local and
two foreigners had ambushed a Srinagar-bound convoy of CRPF killing two jawans
and and injuring nine others.The gunmen then entrenched themselves in the main
block of the campus. Before the troops stormed the premises around noon on
Sunday, the militants were advantageously positioned in the main concrete
multi-storey block China Aluminum
scaffolding tower suppliers at the campus.The firing which had stopped at
nightfall on Sunday resumed with the first light on Monday. The troops stormed
the building around noon on Sunday and then using their highly specialised
combat skills began securing the floors one after one.. They were quickly
surrounded by security forces from Army, CRPF and J&K police’s
counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SOG). Heavy firing and shelling is
underway and loud booms are heard at a distance.Army has also used Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) fitted with cameras to know the position of militants
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